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...Kennedy living room, Jack and L.B.J. and their lieutenants faced each other in a circle. Johnson sipped a weak Scotch and soda, pulled documents and memoranda from his fat dispatch case, and dominated the meeting. Since the upcoming session of Congress was Topic A, Jack was content to listen to the advice and schemes of his leader in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson. Wives Jackie and Lady Bird sat together on a nearby couch, put through long-distance calls for the conferees to Adlai Stevenson* and Governor Steve McNichols of Colorado...
...From a rooftop vantage point in Premier Kishi's compound, which was conveniently across the street from the Diet, Campbell had a bird's-eye view of the major fighting-when not ducking flying rocks and spurting fire hoses. Working near by in a sector where empty soda bottles were the demonstrators' weapons, Correspondent Iwama, a Canadian-Japanese, dodged the sailing glassware but absorbed an eye-smarting dose of tear gas when the police retaliated...
...friend, "that Scotch is the perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student of William Morris Kinkaid...
...Cuckoo's Dune) when Loudon bought it five years ago, it is hung with tapestries and paintings (among them a self-portrait of the young Rembrandt), stocked with old editions, and graced with an icebox liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred, 22, and George, 17. Loudon's third son, John 24, has followed his father into Shell. (His oldest son was killed...
...Damon Runyon called "a great document of a tall, loose-jointed fellow" is the son of a Bronx schoolteacher, grew up wearing glasses as thick as soda biscuits because of conical corneas...